December 6 (19), 1917

It is prescribed that all commissars of railways immediately allow passage to a troop train of the 1st Caucasian Regiment, 5th Caucasian Cossack Division, proceeding to conduct operations against Kaledin and Filimonov. For this reason, the said troop train is permitted free movement along the railway through Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov and to the stanitza of Caucasian, Kuban. The Council of People's Commissars, by means of signatures and the affixation of its seal, certifies this and requests that every possible assistance be rendered to the said troop train for its rapid movement along the railway.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*Printed from the original
signed by V. I. Lenin*

# STRUGGLE AGAINST KALEDIN ON THE DON

## DIRECTIVE TO THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
December 8 (21), 1917

The Commander-in-Chief, departing to Moscow and thence to the south for military operations against Kaledin, is obliged to inform daily by direct wire (personally or through an adjutant) the Council of People's Commissars of which specific persons he appoints, or other military authorities appoint, as responsible officials for conducting separate operations, particularly regarding the movement and concentration of troops and command.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*Printed from the original
signed by V. I. Lenin*

## TELEGRAM ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
AND THE UKRAINIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
December 30, 1917 (January 12, 1918)

The Council of People's Commissars expresses confidence that the Commander-in-Chief will henceforth act, as previously, in full coordination with that central Ukrainian Soviet authority which the Council of People's Commissars has welcomed*, and with the extraordinary commissar appointed by the Council of People's Commissars.

*On December 12 (25), 1917 in Kharkov, the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee was formed. In a telegram to Lenin dated December 13 (26), the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee declared the unity of interests of the peoples of Soviet Russia and Ukraine. The Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR replied on December 16 (29) with a greeting telegram to the "truly popular Soviet authority in Ukraine" (see "Documents on the History of the Civil War in the USSR," vol. I, 1940, pp. 54—57).